Hebrews 10:4

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“For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.”

— WEB

“For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.”

— KJV

“For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.”

— ASV

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Hebrews 10:11 "Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,"
Isaiah 1:11-15 "“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed an…"
Micah 6:6-8 "How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?"
Romans 11:27 "This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”Isaiah 59:20-21; 27:9; Jeremiah 31:33-34"
1 John 3:5 "You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin."
Hebrews 10:8 "Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in …"
Mark 12:33 "and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbo…"
Hebrews 9:9 "which is a symbol of the present age, where gifts and sacrifices are offered that are incapable, concerning the conscience, of making the…"

Commentary

For, &c.--reason why, necessarily, there is a continually recurring "remembrance of sins" in the legal sacrifices (Heb 10:3). Typically, "the blood of bulls," &c., sacrificed, had power; but it was only in virtue of the power of the one real antitypical sacrifice of Christ; they had no power in themselves; they were not the instrument of perfect vicarious atonement, but an exhibition of the need of it, suggesting to the faithful Israelite the sure hope of coming redemption, according to God's promise. take away--"take off." The Greek, Heb 10:11, is stronger, explaining the weaker word here, "take away utterly." The blood of beasts could not take away the sin of man. A MAN must do that (see on Heb 9:12-14).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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